Christopher Carter – "Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster"

"The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles." Davis, the author, says, "For generations, market-driven urbanization has transgressed environmental common sense. Historic wildfire corridors have been turned into view-lot suburbs, wetland liquefaction zones into marinas, and floodplains into industrial districts and housing tracts." Davis also goes on to say that, "Southern California has reaped flood, fire, and earthquake tragedies that were as avoidable, as unnatural, as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets." Ecology and the Psychology of Humankind and animal-kind alike both suffer from the multitude of problems that are plaguing our earth. Most of them we can't fix. Some of them we can; like pollution, global warming, and the extinction of animals. The book talks about these problems and how we can solve them in Los Angeles, and how we can take that ideology and apply it to the rest of the world and the rest of America's cities.